Centrica typifies the ills of the British energy industry | Will Hutton

Britain will never have a coherent energy policy while the market is led by companies that stint on research and development Nobody foresaw the perfect storm now hitting the world's energy markets. There is the fracking revolution in the US, so that it is awash with oil and gas, and its displaced coal producers are flooding world markets with cheap coal. There is Germany's decision to stop all nuclear energy production by 2022, while Japan's nuclear production has been mothballed. And all round ...